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ASCHAFFENBURG. Preventing poverty through education – the PASS Consulting Group, together with the Reiner Meutsch Foundation FLY & HELP, is building a school with kitchen and dining room in northern Namibia, in the village of Oroutumba.
This year PASS is providing 77,000 euros for a school construction project in Namibia. In addition to classrooms for up to 100 students, a school kitchen and dining room will be built. PASS’s appeal for donations to ensure the nutrition of 100 children for one year led to an overwhelming result: an additional 25,000 euros were raised for this purpose. In addition to customers, suppliers, partners and employees of the PASS Consulting Group, Gerhard Rienecker, PASS founder and chairman of the management board, also sought support from friends and family.
Although the PASS Consulting Group had to cancel its Late Year Benefit Concert 2020 – due to the corona pandemic – it is a matter of course for the company to uphold its social commitment, especially in difficult times.
“I thank everyone who donated. I would also like to thank the Rotary Club Aschaffenburg and its president, Ulrich Brass, for handling donations and many Rotary friends for their personal commitment. For me it’s a matter close to my heart, ”emphasizes Gerhard Rienecker. “The people in Africa are particularly suffering from the corona pandemic, also because international support is being restricted. With this project we would like to provide help for self-help in order to enable self-sufficiency in the medium to long term.
Last year PASS had already given a large part of the proceeds from the Late Year Benefit Concert to a project of the Rotary Club Aschaffenburg, which together with the Reiner Meutsch Foundation FLY & HELP built a school in the island state of Madagascar. Thanks to the positive experience, there was no question for PASS to become active again with the foundation.
“We would like to thank FLY & HELP for the extremely successful and professional cooperation so far and hope that we can make a difference on site”, said Rienecker. “I am convinced that, thanks to Reiner Meutsch and his initiative, the money will go directly to the people who really need it.”
The PASS engagement takes place in the village of Oroutumba in the north of the African state of Namibia. Where an old church and makeshift tin shacks previously served as classrooms, construction work on the new school building with classrooms, furniture, a kitchen and a dining room began in January.
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